OpenAI is reporting the pricing for image generation (https://openai.com/api/pricing/) very confusingly in the form of tokens, but looking at the documentation it translates the generated image dimensions and quality into tokens and the advanced pricing page does the math for you. https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing
A generated `medium` 1024x1024 is $0.04/image, which is in the same class as Imagen 3 and Flux 1.1 Pro, although who knows what a "medium" image is, or if the images that went viral from the ChatGPT UI were using `medium` or `high`. Testing from their new playground (https://platform.openai.com/playground/images), the medium images are indeed lower quality and still take 15 seconds to generate: https://x.com/minimaxir/status/1915114021466017830